Sci-Fi writer dies

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!During the 50’s and 60’s the world of aliens and distant worlds could only be found in the written word, this was the era of the science fiction novel and William Tenn was one of those writers that brought [...]

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Legal trouble for Google phone from sci-fi writer’s estate

With Google looking to launch it’s much awaited Nexus One phone the daughter of science fiction writer Philip K Dick’s claims that the name is associated with her father’s book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
The writers popular work went on to become Blade Runner, but his estate is likely to become more famous not [...]

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Sci-fi writer arrested at Canadian border

If you were a person that believes in conspiracies and black governments then what happened to science fiction writer Peter Watts on the US/Canadian border could seem like a scene from a futuristic movie.
The writer of such titles as Starfish, Maelstrom and Behemoth, these are also known as the Rifters Trilogy, was involved in a [...]

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Stephen King may write sequel to The Shining

Sometimes a story finishes leaving the reader or viewer wondering what happened next. This is something that occurs often and in many cases a sequel comes along that ties all of the loose ends up.
This could be the case with The Shining, there is a rumour that prolific writer Stephen King may be revisiting the [...]

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Alan Moore joins Blur

Alan Moore is well known among science fiction and comic fans as being the creator of many stories from which top films like V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell have been based on, so what is he doing working with some of the former members of Blur?
Apparently, the creators of Gorillaz, Damon Alban and [...]

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Author offers latest book as a free podcast

It is funny how podcasting sort of reached a height a while and then seemed have faded away as a format for obtaining different sorts of files.
However, one market that embraced this technology and has pushed it to new levels in the publishing sector, in a similar way that some music tracks are provided free [...]

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Eoin Colfer in live web chat on Friday

The writer of the series of books associated with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Eoin Colfer will be answering questions online to promote the launch of the latest book in the series “And Another Thing”.
This book follows the main characters Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beelbebrox as they continue to travel around the [...]

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Google celebrates HG Wells birthday

Finally Google have come clean and admitted that the crop circles graphics that have been adorning the Google pages and as we stated the a few days ago these graphics and a Twitter post providing a map reference to Horsell in Surrey.
In the War of Worlds, Horsell Common was the “First Contact” point before the [...]

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Phillip K. Dick novel in “graphic translation”

Boom! Studios has produces what it calls a “graphic translation” of Phillip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The series will consist of about 24 issues, with the first issue released in July.
The issues will also likely be collected into a series of hardcover volumes, each of which will contain four issues, [...]

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Edward Willett wins top prize at World Science Fiction Convention

For every writer the winning of an award for a piece of work is recognition from the industry or readers that the book has passed the test by impressing them
This is what happened to the Regina writer, Edward Willet as his book “Marseguro” a story of genetically altered humans who for seventy years have survived [...]

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